Blood, Sweat and Tears

Throughout his pieces, Sergio explores the idea of the contemporary mantle, in which the aesthetics of our time camouflage the fundamental violence of humanity, which has inevitably lead to the crisis of our current times. The color plane, the dimension and the tension between these works echo the sound of a throat that cannot help but cry out.

The intensity and strength of flamenco resonates within Sergio’s pieces, a thread throughout his body of work. He draws on this art form’s expression of raw emotion, the inevitable scream, which comes from suppressing our emotions and silencing our voice. 

Sergio continues with this motif in his piece “The Mourn”, this time in relation to death, exploring the depth of anguish and sorrow we experience when grieving through his use of different temperatures of black along deep, wild slashes of the canvas. He simultaneously draws on the customs surrounding death, with the use of wooden boards hammered into the canvas that evoke death’s finality.

The exhibition is not limited to exploring aesthetics but is presented as a threat to egotistic apathy, a direct confrontation between contemporary ideas and aesthetics with our collective memories of the past. It is a metaphorical journey that criticizes social complacency, revealing the very essence of contemporary barbarism through a stripped-down and uncompromising gaze.